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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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(10.) To sin maliciously, makes sin greater. Aquinas and other of the School-men place the sin against the Holy Ghost in Malice. The Sinner doth all he can to vex God, and despite the Spirit of Grace, Heb. 10.29. Thus Julian, who threw up his Dagger in the Air, as if he would have been revenged upon God. This swells sin to its full bigness, it cannot be greater. When a Man is once come to this, blasphemously to despite the Spirit, there is but one step lower he can fall, and that is to Hell.
(10.) To sin malitiously, makes sin greater. Aquinas and other of the School-men place the sin against the Holy Ghost in Malice. The Sinner doth all he can to vex God, and despight the Spirit of Grace, Heb. 10.29. Thus Iulian, who threw up his Dagger in the Air, as if he would have been revenged upon God. This swells sin to its full bigness, it cannot be greater. When a Man is once come to this, blasphemously to despight the Spirit, there is but one step lower he can fall, and that is to Hell.
(11.) & ult. It aggravates sin, and makes it greater, when a Man not only sins himself, but endeavours to make others sin. 1. Such as teach Errors to the People, who decry Christ's Deity, or deny his Virtue, making him only a Political Head, not an Head of Influence; who preach against the Morality of the Sabbath, or the Immorality of the Soul. These Mens sins are greater than others. If the Breakers of God's Law sin, what do they that teach Men to break them? Matth. 5.19. 2. Such as destroy others by their bad Example. The swearing Father hath taught his Son to swear, and damned him by his Example. These Mens sins are greater than others, and they shall have an hotter place in Hell.
(11.) & ult. It aggravates sin, and makes it greater, when a Man not only sins himself, but endeavours to make others sin. 1. Such as teach Errors to the People, who decry Christ's Deity, or deny his Vertue, making him only a Political Head, not an Head of Influence; who preach against the Morality of the Sabbath, or the Immorality of the Soul. These Mens sins are greater than others. If the Breakers of God's Law sin, what do they that teach Men to break them?